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Puente, Lindsay Rae.

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Locating slavery in the modern national imaginary: The legacy of Haiti.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Locating slavery in the modern national imaginary: The legacy of Haiti./
Author:	Puente, Lindsay Rae.
Description:	227 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2552.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Modern. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3412014
ISBN:	9781124087528

Locating slavery in the modern national imaginary: The legacy of Haiti.
Puente, Lindsay Rae.

Locating slavery in the modern national imaginary: The legacy of Haiti. - 227 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2552.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Irvine, 2010.

My dissertation considers the often-silenced, tangible traces that the Haitian Revolution and radical anti-slavery have left in the greater Caribbean as they emerge in contemporary cultural productions. I look at national trends in the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Jamaica in order to formulate an understanding of the uses of gendered images of slavery and blackness in modern nation-building campaigns. I also critically assess what is left out of these narratives and how these gaps serve specific purposes. Thus, I argue for the centrality of the Caribbean in any true understanding of the history of modernity and the contemporary nation-state by investigating the after-shocks of the Haitian Revolution and of radical anti-slavery.

ISBN: 9781124087528Subjects--Topical Terms:

624011
Literature, Modern.

Locating slavery in the modern national imaginary: The legacy of Haiti.
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520 $a The first chapter of my dissertation focuses on the systematic silencing of the events of the Haitian Revolution in modern revolutionary studies, as well as in the modern philosophical understandings of freedom and liberty, and the resounding effects of these ideas on the formation of the modern concept of the independent nation-state. The second chapter further investigates this erasure, arguing that a fraternal component of the Haitian Revolution, cimarronaje and the radical actions of rebellious slaves, has similarly been silenced. National narratives which promote the figure of the rebellious slave as singular and masculine cover over those acts whose end goal were alternative community formations against the state. Chapter three considers the creation of a national discourse along the specific lines of exclusion in the Dominican Republic, and the manner in which collaborations and mutual goals of modernity and independence between the Dominican Republic and Haiti are forgotten in the terror of a much later massacre (1937), and the living memory of the rule of dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo (1932-1961). In the final chapter of my dissertation I argue that Caribbean literature produced in the last thirty years, both at home and abroad, has sought to produce a fragmented and fragile understanding of history, nation, race and gender with often experimental narratives that refuse simple binaries and masculine authority, and instead reform the textual world in a language that is local, but problematizes postcolonial identity in a neocolonial system.
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